A $10 million donation from William Neukom ’64, a
former Board of Trustees chair, will sponsor the creation
of the College’s first academic cluster in the field of computational sciences. The cluster will comprise three new
professorships, a postdoctoral fellowship and increased
opportunities for undergraduate students to research and
study.
The cluster will integrate and extend computational
work that is currently happening at the College, Neukom

A one-hour DBI overview
talk will be a prerequisite for
participation in Interfraternity Council or Panhellenic
Council recruitment this
fall. Students taking part in
recruitment through Coed
Council, the National As-

sociation of Latino Fraternal
Organizations or the National Pan-Hellenic Council
must complete that training
before the end of their ﬁrst
term as a member.
Chapter presidents of
the Greek Letter Organizations and Societies voted

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The war on terror is not
a physical battleground
but an idea, Georgetown
University Law Center professor David Cole said at a
Thursday lecture marking
the College’s celebration
of Law Day. Famed for his
defense in Texas v. Johnson
(1989), which declared the
federal law against flagburning unconstitutional,

Seventh-grade students ﬂooded into
Alumni Hall Thursday for a Sister-toSister conference, an annual event that
this year addressed issues related to selfesteem and interpersonal relationships.
Hosted by Link Up, a mentorship and
community-building campus organization, the conference invited 120 female

Cole discussed President
Barack Obama’s ability to
end the war.
The American Bar Association proposed May
1 as Law Day in 1957 to
celebrate the rule of law and
the American legal system.
The College’s event will
continue today with a panel
on past and future security
challenges.
Cole, who has represented
people whose rights have
been infringed upon in the

name of national security
both before and after Sept.
11, said the American public
subscribes to a “paradigm of
prevention,” a term coined
by former U.S. attorney
general John Ashcroft to
describe the government’s
justification of aggressive
tactics by painting them as
preventative efforts against
potential future threats.
By claiming an imperative
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students from six local middle schools to
participate in activities and talks with 16
undergraduate facilitators, 10 Link Up
members and other volunteers.
Kelsey Stimson ’15, Link Up vice president, said the organization sought to bring
together people from different parts of
campus and empower female students from
the Upper Valley.
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Two students savor the sunny spring weather on the Green.

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DAily debriefing
OFFICE HOURS
Despite the 2011 repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t” tell, which prohibited gay
men and lesbians from openly serving in the armed services, current U.S.
military policy allows for the dismissal of transgender service members. The
Defense Department, however, is increasingly facing pressure to revoke the
policy, the Washington Post reported last week. As Pride Week comes to a
close, The Dartmouth chatted with women’s and gender studies professor
Michael Bronski about the issue and possibilities for reform.
What has or hasn’t changed since the 2011 repeal of the “Don’t
Ask, Don’t Tell” policy?
MB: I think many people don’t realize that the policy, which was passed
by Bill Clinton, was actually a compromise because before then, gay men
and lesbians were completely banned from the military. “Don’t Ask, Don’t
Tell” would let them stay in the military as long as they were silent. But there
was no reason to think that the repeal of DADT would affect transgender
people at all — it is not a surprise that transgender people are still being
persecuted in the military.
Transgender people are being discriminated against in all different ways,
but that’s not going to change until we have a law that speciﬁcally protects
transgender people. Many legal theorists say that a new anti-discrimination
policy should include transgender people and gender non-conforming
minorities, not just sexual minorities like gays, lesbians and bisexuals.
Do you think the U.S. will be able to institute a law allowing openly
transgender people to remain in the armed forces alongside
openly gay and lesbian service members?
MB: The armed forces have to actually update their policies. Will they
be able to do this? There was a huge ﬁght around allowing gay men and
lesbians to remain in the military. I think culturally, we’re at the moment to
repeal the discriminatory policy against transgender people, but the bottom
line here is that transgender people and gender-nonconforming people face
a much broader hostility in our culture than gays and lesbians. It’s going to
be much harder and I think a much steeper battle for transgender people
to break through in our society and get the protection that they need.

FRIDAY, MAY 2, 2014

Georgetown prof talks free speech
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of national security, the government justifies intruding on certain
people’s civil liberties, especially
the rights of foreign nationals, Cole
said.
“We tend to adopt policies that
deny the liberties and rights of
some people to secure the rights
of others,” Cole said, adding that
some people more readily tolerate
these policies when the government
establishes a sense of “us” versus
“them.”
Ending the war means more
than recalling troops, Cole said.
Obama can end the war on terror,
he said, because though Congress
has authorized the use of military
force against terrorist threats, it
does not require that such force
be used.
Cole then discussed how ending
the war on terror would affect four
tools currently used to respond to
terrorism: detention and killing,
drones, surveillance and accountability.
He distinguished detention and
killing during wartime, when these
actions are based on a target’s
relationship to a larger enemy,
and detention and killing during
peacetime, when punishments must
respond to an individual’s actions.
Drones are problematic in two
respects, Cole said. First, the secrecy surrounding the drones program

removes the accountability that
comes with more conventional acts
of aggression, and second, drones
desensitize the act of killing, he
said.
While the National Security
Agency’s powers are not contingent
upon wartime status, war provides
an incentive to engage in extensive
surveillance.
“Thanks to Edward Snowden,
we now know that we have a surveillance regime,” Cole said.
Ending the war on terror, Cole
said, would diminish the incentive to relinquish civil liberties in
exchange for national security.
Accountability, too, he said, would
increase.
“We have had very little accountability about the war crimes
that we committed,” Cole said. “It
is often the case that accountability
comes in retrospect long after the
war.”
Government major Gray Zabel
’15, who attended the lecture after
discussing counterterrorism with
his roommate, said he approached
the lecture ambivalent about the
topic but left convinced by Cole’s
argument for greater transparency.
“I thought it was extremely
persuasive,” Zabel said. “He definitely took what is a far-reaching
and complicated argument and
condensed it into a few really simple
arguments which I appreciated.”
University of Queensland

public policy professor Katharine
Gelber, who will speak in today’s
panel, said that the “liberty verses
security dichotomy” has increased
in popularity as a subject of discussion.
Gelber, who is currently researching post-Sept. 11 counterterrorism policies in the U.S., the
U.K. and Australia, said her studies
revealed that re-conceptualizing
free speech, and the spread of the
idea that speech can be harmful,
leads to increased acceptance of
civil liberty limitations.
Government professor Sonu
Bedi, a member of the legal studies
faculty group and Law Day organizer, said anyone who is concerned
about their individual safety and
liberties, including students, can
relate to discussions of free speech
and the war on terror.
College students, in particular,
Cole said, should be engaged in
discussing these issues.
“All of us, and particularly when
we’re young,” he said, “need to be
able to develop our ideas and our
world views in a safe and secure
place.”
Philosophy professor Susan
Brison, who helped organize Law
Day, said the topic of free speech is
particularly relevant at Dartmouth
due to recent controversies.
The College’s Law Day focused
on free speech and the war on terror.

This interview has been edited and condensed.
— COMPILED BY MIN KYUNG JEON.

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Neukom donation to establish College’s first faculty cluster
Barnett attributed the growing popularity of computational
Institute for Computational Sci- science to the rise of “big data,”
ences director Dan Rockmore said. greater availability of information
Interdisciplinary in nature, and increasing analysis of data
computational science focuses on sets too large to be processed on
data analysis across various aca- individual computers. More and
demic fields, ranging from physics more data is being created across
to anthropoldifferent scienogy, and uses
tific disciplines,
mathematical “Rather than
he said, cremodels to solve supporting speciﬁc
ating more to
scientific probprocess.
departments directly,
lems.
“ W e
“It will bring we’re trying to support h a v e m o r e
together ideas
data to analyze
interdisciplinary
and people
than we’ve ever
from different new areas, which
had before,” he
d e p a r t m e n t s might turn into
said.
wh o a re e n M a gaged in this new departments.
jor companies
work,” Rock- That’s what makes it
like Google
more said.
and Facebook,
exciting.”
The cluster’s
Bar nett said,
research will
regularly use
extend compu- - ALEX BARNETT,
computational
tational ideas
science to prob e y o n d t h e MATHEMATICS
g ram the alhard sciences PROFESSOR
gorithms that
and into other
drive their serdisciplines, he
vices.
said.
BarMath profesnett said he besor Alex Barnett, who currently lieves the College’s investment in
teaches a class on computational the growing field is a smart move.
and experimental mathematics, He added, however, that “big data”
said computational science can be technology may be used in harmful
applied to tasks in almost any field, ways.
like designing molecules in chem“Some of it is good, and some
istry, analyzing massive data sets of it is evil,” he said. “If you do
in the social sciences and digitally the wrong thing, you could have
reconstructing ancient objects.
a surveillance society.”
Barnett said the most important
Computational science has
aspect of computational science is ramifications for social sciences
creating new algorithms.
and the humanities as well, Barnett
Of the three new professorships said, adding that he and others are
created by the cluster, one will be concerned that “big data” could
named for Thomas Kurtz, who diminish qualitative humanities
co-invented BASIC with former pursuits.
College President John Kemeny.
In addition to Neukom’s $10
Rockmore said that the ad- million donation, $5 million from
ditional professorships could go the College’s April $100 million
to faculty in a wide range of de- anonymous gift will go toward
partments, not just the computer developing the cluster. Hanlon
science department.
announced the faculty cluster
“Rather than supporting spe- initiative, which aims to increase
cific departments directly, we’re interdisciplinary learning at the
trying to support interdisciplinary College, this fall.
new areas, which might turn into
Jaki Kimball ’16, who is majornew departments,” Barnett said. ing in computer science modified
“That’s what makes it exciting.”
with digital arts, said that while
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she may not participate in the
new cluster’s offerings, she believes
computational science and its
interdisciplinary applications are
important, especially in computer
science.
“You shouldn’t be studying in
a vacuum,” she said.
Thinking in an interdisciplinary way, she said, offers helpful
applications for the real world.
Malika Khurana ’15, an engineering major and studio art
minor, said she appreciates opportunities for interdisciplinary
learning.
“I have made a lot of connections between humanities and
comp sci and engineering,” she
said. “I like that Dartmouth is a
liberal arts school, but you can still
do engineering.”
A previous donation from Neukom funded the creation of the
Neukom Institute, which supports
Dartmouth faculty and students
who use computation for their
research, in 2004.
Neukom is the founder and
CEO of the World Justice Project.
He served as the Microsoft Corporation’s lead lawyer for over 20
years and chaired the College’s
Board of Trustees from 2004 to
2007 .
Neukom could not be reached
for comment by press time.

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Neukom chaired the College’s Board of Trustees from 2004-07.

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The College has proven it has no clear vision regarding student life.

The social scene at Dartmouth is antiquated.
Indeed, it is almost farcical, and there is no getting
around this fact. For most students, there is no place
to go on a Friday night except for fraternities or
sometimes sororities, and the latter opportunity
rarely presents itself to most people on campus. It
is unfair to the women at this school that in order
to socialize they must enter male-dominated social
spaces. Moreover, it is unfair to every student at
Dartmouth that in 2014, there simply are not
legitimate gender-neutral spaces on campus where
students can drink beer together. It is difficult to
see the degree of absurdity of the situation from
within the “Dartmouth bubble,” but from an
outsider’s perspective it must seem as if Dartmouth students are still partying in 1975. Much
of the negative press the College has received in
the past few years has been unwarranted. But,
as the saying goes, where there is smoke, there is
fire: few other schools in the nation have a social
scene which begins and ends with their Greek
system, and surely none are as prestigious as the
College on the Hill.
The Greek system at Dartmouth is not to
blame for this; rather, administrators are to
blame for ultimately failing to provide any sort
of viable alternative to what is already available.
The College’s error is more than one of omission;
it often seems as if the administration is waging
active war against non-Greek life. Even as Dean
of the College Charlotte Johnson is doling out
preposterous sentences to fraternities for the
minorest of infractions — think Theta Delta
Chi fraternity’s five-term suspension for Social
Environment Management Policy violations and
hosting a “water party”(…the horror) — Safety
and Security is literally funneling freshmen out of
harmless dorm parties into the Greek system. The
College has with one hand placed far too large of
a social responsibility on the back of the Greek
system, and has with the other tried to strangle
it into quasi-submission. This contradiction in
policy is emblematic of an administration that has
proven it has no vision or plan regarding what it
wants in terms of student life.
Something that gets lost in all of the political
hullabaloo is that there is no reason this should

be a polarizing issue. Instead of wasting time and
energy pondering the abolishment of the Greek
system, both administrators and students should
focus on providing a legitimate, viable, fun alternative to the system in place. Instead of eliminating
all of the good that comes from the Greek system
— unfathomable amounts of community service,
a sense of place at Dartmouth for many here that
is impossible to recreate, and an unquantifiable
air of nostalgia and tradition that many other
great schools lack — the administration could
simply neutralize many of the undeniable social
ills that stem from its unrivaled monopoly on all
social activity at the College.
It is more than possible to introduce genderneutral social spaces to Dartmouth without
“stepping on the toes” of the entrenched system.
Would anybody complain about a more diverse
social scene? Would anybody complain about
new places to drink on the weekend?
The new neighborhood, cluster initiative
provides a perfect opportunity for the administration to prove that it is not completely blind to
this issue, or worse, so utterly incompetent that it
does not know what to do about it. There is no
reason that some of the new clusters shouldn’t be
designated “social spaces” where real parties can
be thrown — parties where students can drink
with the same type of limited supervision that
the College imposes on fraternities. And if the
administration can’t figure out how to do this on
its own, it should look to emulate other schools
that have similar systems in place.
I believe it is imperative for the College to address the structural inequity of our social scene.
(How could one possibly attempt to “solve” the
issue of sexual violence in the current environment?) I also believe it is possible to do this in fun
and creative ways — indeed, accomplishing this
in fun and creative ways has to be one of the most
important parts of the project. A “bottom-up”
approach is essential to tackling almost any issue
on a college campus, but especially one that has
such widespread implications for student life.
There is no reason the administration shouldn’t
be able to garner widespread student and alumni
support for new places for students to socialize. ​

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DBI is now a pre-recruitment requirement, GLC policy says
FROM POLICY PAGE 1

to approve the initiative, a Greek
Leadership Council policy, GLC
accountability chair Sarah Lucas
’15 said.
“Members of Greek houses, especially of fraternities, are in a unique
position to make a difference, and
this training will hopefully give them
the tools to do so,” IFC president Wil
Chockley ’15 said in an email.
Many coed, NALFO or NPHC
organizations conduct rolling recruitment, Lucas said, which allows
them greater ﬂexibility. Ultimately,
however, all potential new members — including those who have
completed DBI training in the past
— must attend a DBI overview talk.
This lecture-based session, offered
for the ﬁrst time this spring, provides
participants with information about
sexual assault issues and mobilizes
students to look out for each other,
Lucas said.
Ten DBI sessions are scheduled
between May 11 and May 13, according to an email sent to the Class
of 2017 on Tuesday by GLOS.
Additional talks will occur this fall.
Carpenter 13, where facilitations are
held, ﬁts up to 150 people.
DBI program developer Jennifer

Messina ’93 will facilitate all trainings, Lucas said.
Lucas said that the new initiative
targets students before they enter the
Greek community and “capitalizes
on the changing perspectives of
individuals.”

“Members of Greek
houses, especially
of fraternties, are in
a unique position to
make a diﬀerence and
this training will
hopefully give them
the tools to do so.”
- WIL CHOCKLEY ’15,
IFC PRESIDENT
Lucas said the program is not
limited to ﬁrst-years or afﬁliated
students.
“Our primary goal is to get a jump
start, but I would love for more of
campus to get involved,” Lucas said.
Alpha Theta coed fraternity president Cristy Altamirano ’15 said in an
email that all students should hear

a DBI overview talk, as it addresses
issues that affect the larger campus.
“We provide the social spaces in
which dangerous spaces could arise,
but if more people were DBI-trained,
then there would be a reduced
chance of anything bad happening,”
she said.
Former IFC president Gunnar
Shaw ’14, said in an email that his
council had envisioned a similar
type of initiative, adding that DBI
training is a crucial aspect of social
education that students should have
prior to joining a house.
“Instituting this policy represents
a cultural shift that the Greek system
desperately needs,” he said.
Alpha Delta fraternity president
Mike Haughey ’15 said the policy is
a step in the right direction, noting
that it is part of a continually evolving
process.
Phi Tau coed fraternity president Josh Schiefelbein ’14 said that
although DBI training might not
be as relevant to his organization
because it does not host as many
alcoholic events as other fraternities
and sororities, he believed all current
and future members would beneﬁt
from the skills taught in the training.
Of nine ﬁrst-year students interviewed, some expressed support for

the program while others questioned
its effectiveness. The majority of
students were uncertain about the
details of DBI training, and a few
were unaware of the policy change
itself.
Julian Bonorris ’17 said he believes

“We provide the social
spaces in which
dangerous spaces
could arise, but if
more people were DBItrained, then there
would be a reduced
chance of anything
bad happening.”
- CRISTY ALTAMIRANO ’15,
ALPHA THETA
PRESIDENT
that further action is needed, though
he supported the initiative. Emily
Castle ’17 said that any program
combatting sexual assault would be
beneﬁcial.
Emma Garcia ’17 said she was

unsure how effective the training
would be, noting that although DBI
seems helpful in theory, it may not
be in practice.
Following recruitment, new members will participate in Movement
Against Violence training, which
complements the DBI overview talk
but is tailored speciﬁcally to each
Greek organization, Lucas said.
Members of Greek organizations
are currently required to participate
in a one-hour MAV or DBI training
session during their ﬁrst term in
residence after they have joined an
organization. Over sophomore summer, members participate in a second
one-hour session — a skills-based
training in which groups of students
discuss potentially harmful scenarios
and effective solutions, Lucas said.
The College also offers a third,
more comprehensive six-hour DBI
leadership training.
Presidents of Sigma Nu and Zeta
Psi fraternity and Alpha Xi Delta
and Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority declined to comment. All other
presidents of IFC, Panhell, coed,
NALFO or NPHC did not respond
to requests for comment by press
time.
Schiefelbein is a member of The
Dartmouth staff.

Link Up aimed to have a more lasting impact on conference participants
than it has in past years, Stimson said.
Among other activities and discussions, participants were asked to write
themselves a letter that they would
receive after graduating eighth grade.
Throughout the conference,
discussions focused on body image
and the media’s influence on selfperception. Small group discussions
focused on fostering connections
and mutual encouragement among
participants, Stimson said.
“You are empowered not only
by your personal beliefs, but by this
community of women who support
each other,” Stimson said. “By your
supporting someone else, you’re giving yourself confidence.”
The Panhellenic Council partnered with Link Up to expand the
program this year. Representatives
from peer advising groups, the Office of Pluralism and Leadership,
WISE, Women in Science, Women in
Mathematics, Women in Computer
Science and non-Panhellenic sororities were also invited to contribute.
WISE program manager Kate
Rohdenburg spoke about the media’s
impact on girls views of themselves.
She discussed gender roles, beauty

as a path to success and building
community with other girls.
In her talk, Rohdenburg urged the
audience to find inspiration in other
women rather than compete with
them. Discussing dating and confidence, Rohdenburg urged women to
only date people who think they are
“awesome.”
Other topics covered by speakers
included healthy friendships and
bullying. Kira Farris ’17, a Link Up
member, gave a presentation that
included video clips from “Mean
Girls” (2004).
“You can’t have women attacking
other women when they’re already
being attacked by the media,” Stimson said.
A panel of four undergraduate
women also spoke about middle
school experiences.
“Seventh grade was a particularly
difficult moment in my life,” panelist Rin Kominkiewicz ’14 said in an
interview. “If sharing my experience
helps these girls, that’s all I can ask
for.”
Stimson said that while opening
up to a table of strangers at first
posed a challenge to young women,
various games and discussions made
the experience less intimidating.
“At the end, they’re having these
amazing discussions that they may

not even have with friends that
they trust, but somehow, they have
achieved this level of trust with
strangers at their table,” Stimson said.
Programming included crossing
the line, an activity that asks people
to consider their privilege, and a
show-and-tell session of objects that
brought them strength. During
lunch, the Subtleties performed for
participants.

Inviting campus sororities expanded the event’s funding, which
allowed more middle school students
to participate in the conference,
Stimson said.
The Panhellenic sororities crafted
conference decorations during sorority pre-recruitment events over the
last two weeks.
Philanthropy is important to
sororities and often gets lost in pre-

recruitment, Panhell vice president
of public relations Jessica Ke ’15 said.
Sister to Sister began in 2000 and
originally focused on encouraging
young women to pursue careers in
STEM fields. It has since expanded
to become a forum for discussing issues such as health, self-confidence
and relationships.
Stimson is a former member of
The Dartmouth staff.

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The conference included crossing the line sessions and discussions on topics like friendships, dating and confidence.

Dartmouth College Guest Lecturer
May 5 & 6, 2014
Hosted by the Department of Music, Department of Theater
and the Center for Professional Development

~

Music 3: American Music
Monday, May 5, 11:15-12:20 pm
Faulkner Recital Hall
Mr. Guerrerio will be speaking to the students in this class.
“He’s Had a Little Work Done: Updating Mozart to Today’s L.A.”
Mr. Guerrerio will address strategies (and challenges) to preserving the intentions of the original authors of The
Marriage of Figaro by updating the language, action and characters to the modern day.
This talk is open to all Dartmouth students and the general public.
Space is limited, so please arrive early.

~
Department of Music & Theater Department Colloquium
Monday, May 5, 4:15-5:15 pm
Faulkner Recital Hall
“Building Broad Foundations: the Real Value of a Liberal Arts Education”
Mr. Guerrerio will be speaking to music and theater majors about ¡Figaro! (90210), and how this work, and
others, were made possible by the broad education he received at Dartmouth, and beyond, in everything from
French and Italian, to Music and Theater, to Economics, History and Sociology.
This talk is open to all Dartmouth students and the general public.
Space is limited, so please arrive early.

~
Center for Professional Development Presents:
A Lunchtime Conversation with Vid Guerrerio
Tuesday, May 6, 12:15-1:15 pm
Robinson Hall, Room 106
“Choosing ‘And’ Not ‘Or’: How Dual Paths Can Multiply Opportunities”
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Softball aims for first ever Ivy title Coed sailing team takes
second at NE Champ.
FROM SOFTBALL PAGE 16

a crushing blow in a 12-1 ﬁve-inning
win the second game.
“We’ve seen their pitcher before
and we kind of know what’s coming
but I think it’s going to be really big
to battle every inning,” Kara Curosh
’14 said. “They’re a good team and
they can come back any time.”
“They’re a great team,” head
coach Rachel Hanson said. “They’ve
got a great pitcher, they can swing the
sticks and they’ve got a great freshman
player in Leah Allen that we have to
prepare for.”
Junior Alexis Borden, Penn’s star
pitcher, is the current Ivy League
pitcher of the week after pitching,
and winning, three complete games
against Columbia last weekend to
earn the South Division title as well
as becoming the 18th player in Ivy
League history to record 50 career
wins. In 17 innings, she allowed just
one earned run and struck out 15
hitters, and is about to break the
500-career strikeout mark, a milestone
Kristen Rumley ’15 broke two weeks
ago.
“We’ll attack the game the way we
have the last week, if not the whole
season,” Hanson said. “[We’ll] have
great at-bats, we’ve got the best 1-2
combo in the league in Kristen Rum-

ley and Morgan McCalmon [’16] and
we’ll continue to play great defense.”
Rumley and McCalmon will need
to be wary of two proliﬁc freshman
hitters for the Quakers — Alexis
Sargent and Allen.
After belting three home runs and
six RBIs, Sargent is on a recent hot
streak, increasing her season home
run total to nine, to earn Ivy League
Rookie of the Week.

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Dartmouth

Penn

18-2 Ivy Record 13-6-1
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Avg.

.279

.355

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2.40

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3.16

7.31

K/G

5.59

Allen has 13 homers this year,
which broke Penn’s single-season
home run record. Allen currently trails
the Ivy League freshman home run
record by three and the single-season
record by ﬁve.
With a League-high batting average of .384, Allen is trying to become

the second player in Penn’s history
to win the Ivy League’s batting title
and the ﬁrst freshman to win since
Cornell’s Kate Varde did so in 2001.
Currently ahead of Allen for the
batting title is McCalmon, who leads
the league with a .424 batting average.
She would be the ﬁrst Big Green player
to win the Ivy League’s batting title.
On Tuesday, McCalmon was
named Ivy League player of the week
for the third time this spring for her
performance during Dartmouth’s
series win over Harvard, which
secured a spot in the championship
and Dartmouth’s third division title.
McCalmon was productive at the
plate and on the mound, registering
six hits, four RBIs and a home run to
go with two wins and 19 strikeouts in
the circle.
Much of the series will revolve
around the team’s ace pitchers and big
hitters. Borden will likely start two, but
Dartmouth may be able to capitalize
with a timely hit if she starts to fatigue
due to her heavy recent workload.
Since the championship series
started in 2007, the home team has
won all seven.Home-ﬁeld advantage
could play a major factor, Hanson
said.
“It will be a great series,” Rumley
said. “We’ve got a little unﬁnished
business with them from last year.”

FROM SAILING PAGE 16

checking if it will be windy, rainy
or shifty and think about that in a
negative way. As a team, we don’t
let those conditions affect us in
a negative way. Instead, we try
to think about how we can give
ourselves the best shot given the
conditions.”
Yale’s win brought it the Bowl
for the first time since 1981. The
Bulldogs won with an A Division
score of 47 and a B Division score
of 64, bringing their total to 111.
The Big Green followed with an
A Division score of 67 and a 107
in the B Division. Boston College
came extremely close behind the
Big Green, rounding out the top
three, just one point shy of Dartmouth.
“Figuring out which way to get
to each mark the fastest this weekend really was a mental game,”
co-head coach Justin Assad said.
“We have a strong boat handling
technique that has given us success, and this whole weekend was
a cerebral style of sailing.”
Matt Wefer ’14 and Avery
Plough ’14 took second place in
A division. Deirdre Lambert ’15,
Nate Greason ’17, Julia McKown
’17 and Houck took sixth place in
the B division.
For their performances, three
Dartmouth sailors won all-New
England honors. Wefer received
first team all-NEISA skipper,
Plough received first team allNEISA crew, and Houck was

awarded second team all-NEISA.
Co-head coach Storck was named
NEISA Coach of the Year.
“When you have a full team really working together and focusing
on the process of getting better
every day, instead of focusing on
results, you see success,” Storck
said.
Now, back on home turf, the
team is ready to gear up for it’s
final competitions.
The previous weekend, the
women’s team punched its ticket to
the Sperry Top-Sider Women’s National Championship in Annapolis
at the end of May by finishing third
at the Reed Trophy to capture one
of the NEISA’s eight spots at the
championships.
The team finished in third place
at the Reed Trophy with a thirdplace finish in the A Division and
a sixth-place finish in the B division to end up 47 points behind
the champions from Yale. The
women’s team also had to fight off
another close challenger, edging
the University of Rhode Island
by five points.
Last year, the coed team finished
third at the Gill Coed Championships with a score of 256, 41 points
behind the champions from the
College of Charleston. The women
dominated the field for their victory in 2013, finishing a clear 38
points ahead of St. Mary’s College
of Maryland.
The team will break from competition until the championship
regattas in early June.

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Softball set for Ivy Champ. Series
B y JOSH SCHIEFELBEIN
The Dartmouth Staff

For the second consecutive year,
the Ivy League Championship Series
comes down to the University of
Pennsylvania and Dartmouth, and
the winner will secure the Ivy League’s
automatic bid in the NCAA softball
tournament.
Last year’s Ivy League championship required all three games.
Dartmouth defeated Penn 6-2 in

game two after losing 1-0 in game
one. Penn then won the series, with
a 3-2 victory in game three that ent
the Quakers to the tournament and
Dartmouth home for the summer.
At the time, the two teams were
well-matched on paper, both 14-3 in
the Ivy League heading into the series.
This year, the narrative has
changed somewhat and the Big
Green (29-16, 18-2 Ivy) will enter
as the favorite looking to claim its
ﬁrst Ivy League title and ﬁrst NCAA

tournament berth. Dartmouth’s 18
conference victories are the highest
in program history.
Penn (18-20-1, 13-6-1 Ivy) on the
other hand has had an up-and-down
year marked by moments of outstanding play and disappointing letdowns.
Last month, on April 5, Penn
visited Hanover for a Saturday
doubleheader. Dartmouth squeaked
by 3-2 in the ﬁrst half before dealing
SEE SOFTBALL PAGE 15

JOSH RENAUD/THE DARTMOUTH STAFF

The softball team looks to avenge last year’s three-game loss to Penn in the Ivy Championship in Philadelphia.

Sailing claims spot at ICSA nationals

B y ALEX CARR

The Dartmouth Staff

The beginning of May presents
two milestones for the Dartmouth
sailing team: one month until
the ICSA championship and the
thawing of Lake Mascoma. Over
the next weeks, the team will
have plenty of opportunities to
fine-tune technique and break in
a brand new fleet of boats as the
women prepare to defend their
national championship and the
coed team looks to improve on
last year’s third-place finish.
“It was impressive that we
managed to get through all of
our conference championships
successfully considering we hadn’t

practiced on our home lake because it was frozen,” co-head coach
John Storck said. “Now there are
definitely small details we need
to improve upon. The big picture
stuff is all there, but we need to
correct the small details that we
couldn’t fix because we weren’t
able to practice.”
Last weekend, the coed team
secured a spot at the Gill Coed
championships by finishing second
out of 18 teams at the Coast Guard
Bowl for the New England Dinghy
Championships, hosted by Yale
University. The Bulldogs beat out
the Big Green for the top spot by
63 points. Dartmouth sailors and
Storck received NEISA awards for
their success this past season.

In Saturday’s competition at
Short Beach Cove, the sailors
could fit just four A Division races
and three B Division races before
unstable weather barred the sailors
from racing.
Conditions improved slightly
Sunday, as the winds shifted and
the teams sailed six races in the
A Division and seven races in B
Division. That afternoon, however, winds reached upwards of
15 knots.
“One of our biggest strengths as
a team is taking a level-headed approach to each day on the water,”
Scott Houck ’15 said. “Everyone is
always going to check the weather,
SEE SAILING PAGE 15

B y kelly wood
School had been out for 15 minutes
and a group of girls had gathered on
the football ﬁeld.
“All right, I think we can do a mile
and a half today,” I said. “Let’s get
started.”
This spring, athletes from the Dartmouth women’s cross country and track
teams are coaching the Girls On the Run
program at three local schools: elementary schools in Thetford and Hartford
and a middle school in Hartford.
The program uses running as a
way to teach self-respect, conﬁdence
and healthy living. Though there is an
emphasis on running, the program is
about much more. The national program began in 1996 and was introduced
to Vermont in 1999. Since then, it has
expanded rapidly, now with teams at
144 schools across the state.
During their junior year, Melanie
Schorr ’06 and Meredith Curtis ’06
brought the program to Hartford.
The friends had talked about getting
involved in the community with a skill
and a passion they already had — running. Curtis had heard of Girls On
the Run, and it seemed like a perfect
ﬁt. Initially, the pair looked to ﬁnd an
established group in the Upper Valley,
but there wasn’t anything like it. With
the support of the Vermont’s Girls on
the Run director and their coach at the
College, they started their own program
at Dothan Brook Elementary.
At practices twice a week, after a
warm up run, walk and skipping session,
we circle up to stretch, which the girls
take turns leading. Then we talk about
the lesson for the day. This time, we
started with a game. The girls worked
together to untangle a human knot,
and after 10 minutes or so, we were all
free. We sat in a circle and discussed
how we had ﬁgured it out, focusing on
leadership and the characteristics of an
effective leader. We ended by discussing how each of us is a leader in some
way — whether it’s on a team, in class
or even at home with our siblings.
The season culminates with a 5-kilometer run, where all of the Girls on
the Run teams celebrate the season.
Having run dozens of road races since

high school, I can say that the program’s
race is unlike anything I’d seen before.
From the sea of pink T-shirts to the excited and piercing cheers of elementary
school girls, the event is a spectacle with
its unwavering positivity.
Each girl wears a number one bib
and gets a medal upon completion. A
favorite memory is seeing one of our
runners — who had told us she had
never run a mile at the beginning of the
season — ﬁnish the race with a smile on
her face. She told us it was the hardest
thing she’d ever done, but that she was
proud of herself for sticking it out. As
an athlete, that feeling is the biggest
reward you can achieve.
Some Dartmouth athletes also get
involved coaching local kids through
the Athletes United program, which
offers third through sixth graders a
chance to play free, organized sports
twice a week. Big Green athletes who
volunteer as coaches visit four schools in
the Upper Valley for after school games.
On Sundays, the young athletes come
to Dartmouth for “game day.”
Alpine skier Jake Perkins ’14, the
program’s director, got involved at the
recommendation of older teammates.
He said he has enjoyed that Athletes
United allows him to engage with kids
and families in the community and get
to know other Dartmouth athletes. Like
Girls On the Run, the program has an
educational component, focusing on
one goal each session. AU plays soccer
in the spring, basketball in the summer
and dodgeball in the fall.
It’s always fun to see a few of the
Girls On the Run girls at Dartmouth
hockey or baseball games. When our
young athletes are in the stands, it’s a
reminder of how Dartmouth athletes
can be role models. The relationship
between Dartmouth athletes and kids
in the Upper Valley goes both ways.
As the girls ﬁnish their laps at practice,
each cheering on the next, we gather as
a group. After some water and stretching, the girls talk about the upcoming
race. Some are excited, while others are
nervous about running farther than they
have before, but for Dartmouth athlete
coaches, this event is about so much
more than the running — it’s about
being a role model.